Identifier: dentalcosmos3218whit (find matches)
Title: The Dental cosmos
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: White, J. D McQuillen, J. H. (John Hugh), 1826-1879 Ziegler, George Jacob, 1821-1895 White, James William, 1826-1891 Kirk, Edward C. (Edward Cameron), 1856-1933 Anthony, L. Pierce (Lovick Pierce), b. 1877
Subjects: Dentistry Dentistry
Publisher: Philadelphia, S. S. White Dental Manufacturing Co
Contributing Library: Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the National Endowment for the Humanities

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each $1.00 34 HOT VAPOR PAIN OBTUNDER. Patented January 21, 1890.Devised by Dr. S. A. Milton.
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Dr. Milton presents a novel idea as to the best way of obtunding sensitivedentine, and he has constructed the neat little apparatus shown above todemonstrate the correctness of his theory, which is, that the oils of cloves,cinnamon, and cajuput, also eucalyptol, thymol, and campho-phenique, andother medicaments, vaporized and applied at the normal temperature of thehuman body (say 980 F.), directly upon the sensitive surface, will deaden thesensibility and enable the operator to proceed without pain to the patient. The apparatus consists essentially of a water-heater, a medicating chamber,a volatilizer, a lamp for heating, and the necessary tubes, stop-cocks, etc.Dr. Milton lays stress on applying the medicament with force, and to thisend the apparatus is attached to a foot-blower or a cylinder of nitrous oxideor compressed air. Air forced through the tube passes through a worm inthe water-heater, mingles with the vaporized medicament, and is thrown forci-bly upon the sensitive surfac

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